Re: Polymetric music and page breaks

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "Andrea" == Andrea La Rose <address@hidden> writes:

    Andrea> Thanks for responding. Do keep in mind that this is only an
    Andrea> excerpt of a 40 minute piece. I excerpted enough so that the
    Andrea> problem would be apparent. So I realize that everything in
    Andrea> the excerpt is unequal and therefore confusing.  There is
    Andrea> about 10-minutes-worth of this kind of polymetry, so nothing
    Andrea> is breaking in the way Lilypond would like it to; the bar
    Andrea> lines do not line up for ages. My question is: Is there a
    Andrea> work-around?

I haven't looked at your piece, but what I do with the Renaissance music
where there's no good place for Lily to break the score is:

          \context{
                \Voice
                \remove "Forbid_line_break_engraver"          
              }

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